There was going to be facehuggers instead of black goo in the original draft until, and I quote, "script doctor Damon Lindelof" came along. Along with the more xenomorph-looking version of Fifield-zombieman above it was probably ment as a more direct alien prequel at some point.

Saw it a couple weeks ago, disliked it greatly for several reasons. This is one of them:
the first Alien was a movie heavy on themes (what with all the metaphors for sex, rape, maternity, cancer, primal fears and so on) but one could disregard these and enjoy the film simply as a great horror/sci-fi flick.
Prometheus however bashes us on the head with heavy-handed themes such as belief, faith, the creation of life (Shaw's angst for being sterile for example), the existence of a god/gods, but utterly fails to deliver, and the film suffers for it. The scientists made what is probably the greatest scientific discovery ever but everyone acts as if it's a failure and/or nobody gives a shit. And what was the point of having the film set at Xmas, other that heavy-handed symbolism (and the fact that the ship has random things aboard such as a Xmas tree, a piano, an axe, a bike, but no weapons )? And the fact that Vickers was Weyland's daughter could be interesting, but as it's presented it comes rather out of left field and amounts to nothing.

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